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Public gets briefed on fracking health studies, despite no-show from Pitt, DOH
Around 100 local residents came to a public forum in Washington County on two state-funded studies into fracking’s impact on public health Wednesday night. The forum was held despite the fact that none of the researchers working on the studies were present. University of Pittsburgh school of public health researchers pulled out of the event …
Mark Esper confirms he was briefed on intelligence about Russian payments to the Taliban
Esper’s comments came during a long-awaited appearance before the House Armed Services Committee, where lawmakers had their first opportunity to ask the defense secretary and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley about their knowledge of intelligence on Russia offering bounties to the Taliban for killing US troops in Afghanistan. It was …